<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I'm very happy with the ones I set up for front ends, and will probably buy another when they're on sale again.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Calvin Dodge</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Ozzy Lash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ozzy.lash@gmail.com" target="_blank">ozzy.lash@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Karl Newman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newmank1@asme.org" target="_blank">newmank1@asme.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Michael Wisniewski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikewiz38@gmail.com" target="_blank">mikewiz38@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">If you search liva+mythtv on google you will find some results that should address at least some of your questions. This is the one I'm most interested in <a href="http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2015-January/375223.html" target="_blank">http://lists.mythtv.org/<u></u>pipermail/mythtv-users/2015-<u></u>January/375223.html</a>, though that deals with a FE/BE running, amazingly, on that hardware.</blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I did see some of those threads, but I'm a little concerned about some of the questions that I asked. I bought a raspberry pi to use with xbmc/kodi, and before buying it, people said it worked. Technically, yes, it does work, but at a subpar experience. Menus are slow, especially when scrolling. Decoding h.264 works, but try throwing something else at it (like mpeg2 without the license), and it gets sluggish. </div><div>I also bought a firetv after the pi died for use with kodi. Just like the pi, it works, but there's some quirks with it. For example, it doesn't decode mpeg2 very well, the menus are quick, but my old lirc remote doesn't work so I'm forced to use only a few buttons with the firetv remote. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm just trying to see what the consensus is on this box, now since a month or two has passed. It looks like it works, but there are some quirks with it....which is kind of steering me away from it and finding something cheap with vdpau support. </div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra">This does not have the same problems that the RPi or the old Atom boards have with screen navigation, etc. On mine it's just as snappy as my primary frontend/backend. MPEG-2 works fine, with VAAPI. I'm only using SD but plenty of reports say that HD MPEG-2 is fine too. I have some DVD rips in my video library which were encoded by Handbrake to h.264 which seem to play okay over the network (GigE), but I haven't watched them extensively. At the time, I said I think this is the cheap, featureful, powerful but very low energy device we've all been waiting for as an ideal MythTV frontend. If you have a requirement for top-shelf deinterlacing you'll probably need to look to nVidia for VDPAU, which will be significantly larger, more expensive and more power hungry.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">To answer one of your other questions, yes it's an x64 chip and boots via 64 bit UEFI only, so your install media will need to support that (I had trouble with the default Gentoo image).<span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Karl<br></div></font></span></div>
<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div>I'll agree with Karl. I have one of these, and menu navigation is snappier than what it replaced (a first generation ion system). It plays back broadcast HD MPEG2 with no problems, and I've not noticed any problems with my ripped dvds. I don't have any ripped bluerays, but I have heard reports that these are fine as well.<br><br></div><div>When I first swapped between the two, I tried looking closely at the outputs of the 2 devices, and while it did seem a little different, I can't say that one was noticeably different than the other. I don't watch a lot of recorded sports, though, so perhaps that would show up the deinterlacer differences.<br><br></div><div>I have since bought a second, that I have up and running myth, but haven't really used yet. I also bough a vga to svideo cable so that I may hook it up to an older tv in the office to have a frontend there. Either that or keep it around as a standby when the old bedroom frontend finally goes out.<br><br></div><div>Bill<br></div><div><br></div><div> <br></div></div><br></div></div>
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